http://www.christianpersecution.info Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:30:01 -0400 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:30:01 -0400 Worthy News Builder http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/taliban-imposes-islamic-law-in-pakistan-region-17701/ Minority Christians and other non-Muslims faced potential persecution Tuesday, December 30, as militants linked to Taliban and Al-Qaeda groups imposed Shariah, or Islamic law, in the Orakzai Agency tribal region of the restive Pakistani North West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials told BosNewsLife. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/pakistan-policeman-tortures-paralyzes-christian-17612/ A Pakistani Christian boy's quarrel with a Muslim policeman's son has led to his father's imprisonment, torture, paralysis, and five-year prison sentence. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/bangladesh-buddhist-clerics-take-christians-captive-17555/ Buddhist clerics and local council officials are holding 13 newly converted Christians captive in a pagoda in a southeastern mountainous district of Bangladesh in an attempt to forcibly return them to Buddhism. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/pakistan-police-raid-christian-slum-women-injured-17538/ Pakistani police ransacked run-down homes of Christians living in a slum of Pakistan's 10th largest city and "severely tortured Christian women" leaving several of them "critically injured", local residents told BosNewsLife. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/indonesia-muslims-burn-churches-homes-over-blasphemy-17518/ A tense calm returned to a village in Indonesia's Central Maluku province, where angry Muslims torched churches, dozens of homes and other properties after a Christian teacher allegedly made comments insulting Islam, rights investigators said Wednesday, December 17. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/vietnam-authorities-destroy-new-church-building-17519/ Local government officials in Dak Lak Province this morning made good on their threat to destroy a new wooden church building erected in September by Hmong Christians in Cu Hat village. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/india-militants-attack-christians-in-karnataka-church-bombers-sentenced-17473/ A nation-wide alliance of Christian leaders, churches, mission agencies, and other Christian institutions in India has condemned widespread anti-Christian violence in the Indian state of Karnataka, which injured dozens, but "welcomed" the sentencing of those involved in church bombings. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/india-christians-fear-christmas-violence-in-orissa-celebrations-cancelled-17474/ Fearing violence, many Christians in India's volatile state of Orissa will for the first time in their history not celebrate Christmas but instead mourn victims of recent anti-Christian attacks, which killed dozens, and those who died in shootings in Mumbai, a priest told BosNewsLife, Saturday, December 13. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/pakistan-christian-politician-injured-in-attack-17437/ A Christian politician in Pakistan's Punjab province was recovering of his injuries Thursday, December 11, after he was apparently nearly killed by Muslim activists, amid growing religious tensions in the region. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/bangladesh-christian-family-beaten-cut-and-face-charges-17399/ The harassment that Bangladeshi converts from Islam face from Muslim neighbors in this southeastern area near Cox's Bazar can take serious turns -- as it did last month, when an attack by about a dozen Muslims left a Christian family with machete wounds. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/comoros-christians-oppressed-on-indian-ocean-islands-17355/ Christians on the predominantly Muslim islands of Pemba and the Comoros archipelago are beaten, detained and banished for their faith, according to church leaders who travel regularly to the Indian Ocean isles off the east coast of Africa. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/india-christians-in-orissa-fear-violent-christmas-17325/ Christians in Orissa state are anticipating Christmas with fear as Hindu extremists have called for a state-wide bandh, or forced shut-down on all sectors of society, on Dec. 25 - a move that could provide Hindu extremists the pretext for attacking anyone publicly celebrating the birth of Christ. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/vietnam-authorities-pressure-new-christians-to-recant-17173/ In violation of Vietnam's new religion policy, authorities in Lao Cai Province in Vietnam's far north are pressuring new Christians among the Hmong minority to recant their faith and to re-establish ancestral altars, according to area church leaders. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/pakistan-authorities-threaten-to-bulldoze-dozens-of-christian-homes-in-lahore-17013/ Dozens of Christian families in Pakistan's second largest city refused to vacate their homes Tuesday, November 11, despite the expiration of an order from authorities to leave immediately, Christian rights investigators said. Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/india-orissa-braces-for-more-violence-after-another-murder-16969/ Terrified Christians already ravaged by more than two months of violence in Orissa state’s Kandhamal district braced for more carnage as suspected Maoists today gunned down a local worker of the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Wed, 31st Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500